[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5751 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5751

 To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to add a 
    standard related to State consideration of public disclosure of 
meetings with lobbyists for, or representatives of, electric utilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 14, 2025

   Mr. Harder of California introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to add a 
    standard related to State consideration of public disclosure of 
meetings with lobbyists for, or representatives of, electric utilities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Curb Private Utilities Corruption 
Act'' or the ``CPUC Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF MEETINGS.

    Section 111(d) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978 (16 U.S.C. 2621(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(22) Public disclosure of meetings.--
                    ``(A) Standard.--Each State shall consider 
                requiring public disclosure, on the website of the 
                applicable State regulatory authority, of each meeting 
                between--
                            ``(i) an employee or member of the board of 
                        the State regulatory authority; and
                            ``(ii) a lobbyist, executive, or other 
                        representative of an electric utility.
                    ``(B) Prior state actions.--Notwithstanding section 
                124 and paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 112(a), each 
                State regulatory authority shall consider and make a 
                determination concerning the standard set out in 
                subparagraph (A) in accordance with the requirements of 
                subsections (a) and (b) of this section, without regard 
                to any proceedings commenced prior to the date of 
                enactment of this paragraph.
                    ``(C) Time limitation.--Notwithstanding subsections 
                (b) and (c) of section 112, each State regulatory 
                authority shall consider and make a determination 
                concerning whether it is appropriate to implement the 
                standard set out in subparagraph (A) not later than one 
                year after the date of enactment of this paragraph.''.
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